Artsen moeten het belang van de patiënt altijd vooropstellen. Het kabinetsplan om zorgkosten ter overweging mee te nemen in het behandelplan botsen met dat principe, schrijft André Knottnerus.
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Charlotte Web shares a report from the Associated Press: A shareholder has sued Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, accusing them of deceiving investors in their responses to media reports about Huang's affair with a purported Chinese spy that threatens national security. [...] The news reports said that the Commerce Department was investigating Alice Huang's company, Singapore-based Megaspeed, on suspicions that it was helping to sidestep U.S. export restrictions blocking Nvidia chips from being sold to China. But Nvidia said then that its compliance team checked and determined that Megaspeed wasn't doing anything illegal.
But, according to the complaint, the statements were misleading because they were made when Jensen Huang was having an affair with Alice Huang, who is "suspected of seeking to help smuggle Nvidia products into China." It accuses Nvidia and Huang of failing to disclose the affair and issuing false statements about Nvidia's relationship with Megaspeed, which posed a "material risk" to Nvidia's reputation and business prospects.
[...] "As a result of Defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the Company's securities, Plaintiff and other Class members have suffered significant losses and damages," the complaint said. Had investors known the truth, they wouldn't have purchased Nvidia's shares "at the artificially inflated prices that they did, or at all," the complaint said. "Fun fact: Nvidia donated $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom fund," notes Slashdot reader Charlotte Web.
UPDATE: The New York Times reports that Huang also also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of health care and a direct report.
But, according to the complaint, the statements were misleading because they were made when Jensen Huang was having an affair with Alice Huang, who is "suspected of seeking to help smuggle Nvidia products into China." It accuses Nvidia and Huang of failing to disclose the affair and issuing false statements about Nvidia's relationship with Megaspeed, which posed a "material risk" to Nvidia's reputation and business prospects.
[...] "As a result of Defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the Company's securities, Plaintiff and other Class members have suffered significant losses and damages," the complaint said. Had investors known the truth, they wouldn't have purchased Nvidia's shares "at the artificially inflated prices that they did, or at all," the complaint said. "Fun fact: Nvidia donated $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom fund," notes Slashdot reader Charlotte Web.
UPDATE: The New York Times reports that Huang also also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of health care and a direct report.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
New York has forced T-Mobile to remove a 50GB monthly data cap from its $15 low-income broadband plan after regulators found customers who exceeded the limit had their speeds cut by more than 97%, to just 650 Kbps. "Additionally, the [Office of the Attorney General (OAG)] found T-Mobile restricted [New York's Affordable Broadband Act (ABA)] plans to areas with 5G coverage, despite offering standard-rate 25 Mbps plans in 4G areas, and intentionally coded its website to hide affordable plans from search engines," reports RochestFirst. From the report: Under the terms of the settlement, T-Mobile must:
- Eliminate data caps on its ABA plans and deliver guaranteed 25 Mbps download speeds.
- Expand ABA plan availability to all geographic areas where it offers fixed-wireless home internet service.
- Make its ABA webpage indexed and easily discoverable via standard web searches.
- Eliminate data caps on its ABA plans and deliver guaranteed 25 Mbps download speeds.
- Expand ABA plan availability to all geographic areas where it offers fixed-wireless home internet service.
- Make its ABA webpage indexed and easily discoverable via standard web searches.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Harmonic Automata is an audio/visual toy I created for myself to take breaks during the day. All the technical heavy lifting was done by Opus 5.5. Just open it and start making stuff. [via mefi projects]
The delicate mission to save an endangered shrub using "sperm donors".
In the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, an endangered shrub is struggling with fertility. A team of scientists hopes the plant equivalent of IVF can help.
Ukrainian wins 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 after eight-minute timeout
‘I tried to direct this anger towards the ball’
Elina Svitolina staged a remarkable comeback to beat Karolina Muchova and remain in the hunt for the WTA Finals title.
The Ukrainian looked to be on her way out of Indian Wells when she was a set down and required an eight-minute medical timeout. But she recovered to win 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 and stay in with a chance of reaching the semi-finals.
Continue reading...Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982
Democrat Scott Colom pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the midterm elections when he defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since 1875, after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states.
Colom opened up a narrow lead over Hyde-Smith late on election night. His lead widened as election officials counted provisional ballots. Hyde-Smith was not able to close the gap.
Continue reading...Group attending Veterans Day ceremony sharply reminded by sentinel to maintain ‘silence and respect’ at sacred site
A US army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier loudly reprimanded the embattled US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and his top staffers on Wednesday, after some in the group were heard laughing and talking near the memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
According to video captured by the TV network pool, Hegseth was with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh walking up the steps in front of the memorial after posing for pictures. A laugh is audible, prompting the guard to yell: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.” Hegseth looked over his shoulder in the direction of the soldier as he continued walking up the steps.
Continue reading...Remains believed to have belonged to Africans or Afro-Brazilians repatriated after being flown back by diplomats
Two skulls, including that of a man believed to have taken part in Brazil’s greatest slave revolt but whose remains were taken to the United States and used in racist eugenics studies at Harvard University, were repatriated on Wednesday.
The remains had been outside Brazil since the 19th century. One was taken about 190 years ago from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia; the other, about 160 years ago, from Rio de Janeiro – and were welcomed back in moving, subdued ceremonies in both cities.
Continue reading...Warriors star defends wife over romantic comedy role
Arenas called Ayesha ‘only blemish’ on Curry family
Four-time NBA champion condemns double standards
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has criticized several ex-professional athletes for questioning his wife Ayesha’s decision to appear in a romantic comedy featuring an on-screen kiss, accusing them of diminishing her accomplishments and perpetuating double standards about women.
The four-time NBA champion posted a 90-second video on Instagram on Wednesday in response to comments by former NBA players Gilbert Arenas and Nick Young, as well as former NFL players Emmanuel Acho and LeSean McCoy, following the release of Ayesha Curry’s new film, Second Chance Holiday.
Continue reading...AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Internationale investeringsverdragen zitten klimaatbeleid in de Europese Unie te vaak dwars, vindt een groep van tientallen juridisch experts. In een brief roepen ze lidstaten daarom op om veel afspraken in deze overeenkomsten te herzien.
Naar aanleiding van de VN-klimaattop COP31 spreken de academici hun zorgen uit over bilaterale investeringsverdragen, waarvan lidstaten er meer dan 1400 hebben getekend. Deze verdragen zijn bedoeld om internationale investeringen te stimuleren, met afspraken die de belangen van buitenlandse investeerders beschermen.
Maar volgens de briefschrijvers, onder wie hoogleraren in de rechten aan Nederlandse universiteiten, gebruiken bedrijven in de fossiele industrie dit soort verdragen vaak om klimaatmaatregelen aan te vechten als die tegen hun belangen ingaan. Daarbij zou alleen de dreiging van een dure arbitragezaak al een afschrikwekkend effect hebben op overheden die klimaatbeleid willen invoeren. Dat staat op gespannen voet met de verplichting voor EU-lidstaten om klimaatverandering zo veel mogelijk tegen te gaan, stelt de brief. Daarnaast komen de kosten van claimzaken om mogelijk misgelopen winsten voor fossiele bedrijven op deze manier bij de belastingbetaler terecht.
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De academici pleiten onder andere voor het aanpassen of beëindigen van afspraken in verdragen die "investeringen in fossiele energie beschermen tegen legitieme klimaatmaatregelen". De Europese Commissie zou daarbij een EU-brede aanpak moeten coördineren. Lidstaten moeten wat de briefschrijvers betreft ook afzien van nieuwe verdragen die de investeringen door fossiele bedrijven beschermen en wereldwijd moeten pleiten voor hervormingen rondom investeringsverdragen. Ook pleit de brief voor meer openheid rondom investeringsverdragen.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat investeringsverdragen kritiek krijgen omdat ze acties tegen vervuiling en klimaatverandering hinderen. In 2022 kondigde toenmalig klimaatminister Rob Jetten aan dat Nederland uit het Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) zou stappen, omdat dit verdrag een obstakel was voor het halen van de klimaatdoelen van Parijs. In 2024 kondigde de Europese Unie aan uit dit verdrag te stappen. Daarvoor grepen energiebedrijven naar het ECT om miljardenclaims tegen de Nederlandse overheid in te dienen vanwege de versnelde sluiting van kolencentrales.
When someone says “German techno group”, you probably have a pretty good picture in your mind. MEUTE, on the other hand, is an 11-piece techno marching band that plays electronic music with acoustic instruments: tubas, trombones, drums kits, etc. Reset (above) is a single from their new album, KOSMOS. I love this.